OneWorld Solar is a veteran-owned solar company, and this is the one project on the site that has nothing to do with a payback period. Mike Reynolds was seriously injured in Iraq by an IED. The company donated a 10 kW ground mount solar system to him and his family.
That is the whole of what we are going to say about the circumstances. Details of Mr. Reynolds's service, his injuries and his family are his to share, not ours to publish as marketing, and giving back is not something a company should be narrating about itself at length.
What was installed
A 10 kW ground mount array. In the context of a company whose largest single installation is 1.267 MW, that is a very small system — about a hundredth of it. It was built the way any of our arrays are built: engineered, permitted, foundations set, fixed-tilt racking, interconnected and commissioned, by the same crews who install our commercial ground mounts.
Ground mount was the right structure for the same reasons it usually is on a small site: the array faces the way it should rather than the way the building happens to face, the panels stay off a roof that will need replacing before they do, and everything is reachable at ground level for the next twenty-five years.
10 kW
Ground mount solar array
Donated in full.
$0
Cost to the family
No commercial arrangement.
Same crews
As our commercial work
Engineered and commissioned to the same standard.
Why a solar company ends up doing this
Doug Baird, who acquired the company in October 2017 and runs it today, is a disabled U.S. Army combat engineer officer and a Gulf War veteran. His background is on the OneWorld Solar leadership page. A disabled veteran-owned business donating a system to a wounded soldier is not a campaign; it is one decision, made once, by people with a direct line of sight to what an IED does to a life.
There is also a fair amount we are not publishing. We have not put a date on the installation, a town beyond Georgia, or any production figure for the array, because none of that is documented well enough to state as fact and none of it would tell you anything you need to know. The photographs on this page are the ones taken at the time, at the resolution they were taken.
The rest of what we do is ordinary commercial work: commercial solar EPC contracts for businesses that go on to claim the 30% federal solar tax credit, across poultry farms, dealerships, factories and utility sites throughout commercial solar installation in Georgia and the wider Southeast.
We publish this project because it happened, not because it sells anything.
